SolarCity Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"Seems like SolarCity inside sales is the lowest-paying in the industry. Crazy how they are getting away with the low amount of money they pay their employees. Example, if a system generates $50k in revenue and takes 3 months to install, you would be compensated roughly $500 for it. 3 months of work for that??!!? The rest of the industry is paying a lot more. Turnover is unreal. Every single month so many people are quitting once they realize that everything they were told are smoke and mirrors. On top of all of this there is no support from management at all. Managers are in meetings all day long so it's survival of the fittest. If you don't end up converting your leads at a high percentage every 3 days then you will fall to the bottom of the queue and not receive any more calls. I was actually one of the top producers that left to work for Sunrun and it is night-and-day different. Also spoke with Vivint and they are much better aligned for pay and the support to succeed as well. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID AND WORK FOR SOLARCITY. YOU WILL REGRET IT."

"9 months in SolarCity is growing at breakneck speed with little thought to infrastructure and human resource planning. What a wonderful cause and product though. I hope I can outlast the growing pains."

"I've worked for SolarCity since August 2014 as a PV Designer. I'm responsible for drafting for PV installation on residences using internal software - designed explicitly to enable me to draw faster. I haven't enjoyed how I have to compete against my peers for work - it doesn't foster a good team environment. I also don't enjoy doing assembly-line like work every single day."

"Fantastic Company, however unstructured."

"I was really excited to get the job. I was looking forward to develop a great relationship with the workplace environment and teammates. I would always give my best to get the job done on time, even if it meant working extra hours for no extra pay. But the management style was horrible and undesirable. The manager would make unreasonable demands like calling me unprofessional in front of the entire team for not attending a meeting I haven't received any notification to. The junior positions get blamed for the manager's mistakes. They don't provide proper training and would expect the new employee to know everything about the company's database and applications without providing proper exposure. Not allowed to answer any important calls during work hours, which is completely cruel. Suppressed of freedom of speech. You'll be expected to have no opinion or views of your own. Poor dispute resolution skills in management. Chances are you could get laid off for nonsense reasons that do not make any sense. Although, I looked forward to giving the best I can and putting great effort in learning more from the company, the whole experience seemed pretty awful. It's a very hostile work environment."

"Not a great company to work for in the still developing markets. They don't seem to understand that there are differences market to market. Upper management dispenses koolaid in tanker trucks and everyone is expected to drink a few gallons a day. Ask yourself how many times you need to be told something before you start to disbelieve it. I will say they do manage to hire very nice people."

"Solar City has been the best thing that ever happened to me."

"Free cereal and snacks don't make up for lying and cutting salary on all salespeople. Installations always pushed out, delayed, or cancelled - seeing a commission is non-existent. Hiring quotas (easy to get hired due to this), sales quotas, call quotas, any quota you can name is there. Turnover happens every day. Corporate only interested in getting homeowners locked into 20 year contracts - they want to bargain the financials for seats on the energy board. Their real purpose - leverage."

"So many people have come and gone since I've been here - especially in sales, It's a revolving door! You will work plenty of OT without pay (if you are exempt - that may change soon). Free cereal, coffee and sodas are the only perk. They are there to keep you at your desks and help avoid breaks. I got an hourly rate, but sales group had their pay constantly changed/ lowered through various programs deviously designed by senior sales management.EVERYONE has a quota even if your not in sales."

"I have worked for SolarCity since 2010. It is a good company with a lot of talents. I've learned a lot about the industry and the company!"